Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

Apple A9

HiSilicon Kirin 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (31.78GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +74%

498005

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +161%

652

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 820

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP6

650 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

6

Execution units

6

32

Shading units

64

4

Max size

12

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6528 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

31.78 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Mar 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

-

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